psychic detectives
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Recently on another group we were talking about fictional psychic detectives, and detectives who investigate occult phenomena in general. Especially from the late 19th or early 20th centuries. The best-known are of course Algernon Blackwood’s John Silence and William Hope Hodgson’s Dr Carnacki, but I’ve discovered the existence of two others, also dating from around the same era. These are Hesketh Prichard’s Flaxman Low, and Alice and Claude Askew’s Aylmer Vance. I haven’t read anything of Prichard’s, but I’m about to read an Aylmer Vance story.
Is anyone here familiar with the work of either Prichard or the Askews?
I haven’t read any of Hodgson’s Dr Carnacki stories either - are they any good?
dfordoom)Recently on another group we were talking about fictional psychic detectives, and detectives who investigate occult phenomena in general. Especially from the late 19th or early 20th centuries. The best-known are of course Algernon Blackwood’s John Silence and William Hope Hodgson’s Dr Carnacki, but I’ve discovered the existence of two others, also dating from around the same era. These are Hesketh Prichard’s Flaxman Low, and Alice and Claude Askew’s Aylmer Vance. I haven’t read anything of Prichard’s, but I’m about to read an Aylmer Vance story.
Is anyone here familiar with the work of either Prichard or the Askews?
I haven’t read any of Hodgson’s Dr Carnacki stories either - are they any good?
